ascendingadjective
uk/əˈsen.dɪŋ/us/əˈsen.dɪŋ/increasing in size or value:
I shall list my objections to the plan in ascending order of importance.
specialized biology moving upwards or to higher levels, often used to refer to sensory pathways in the nervous system
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Increasing and intensifying
- -ify
- a snowball effect idiom
- accretion
- accumulate
- accumulative
- add fuel to the fire idiom
- balloon
- bump
- dial
- heighten
- hot up
- increase
- increment
- pile
- rack
- speed-up
- spurt
- step
- step sth up
- supersize
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